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Sam Bottoms dies at 53; actor appeared in 'Apocalypse Now,' 'Last Picture Show'

Sam Bottoms, a film and television actor who played the role of California surfer-turned-GI Lance Johnson in Francis Ford Coppola's 1979 Vietnam War epic "Apocalypse Now," has died. He was 53.

By Dennis McLellan

December 18, 2008

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